The ironic bent of these posts must have been lost on me. If you're saying these people are ugly, I don't really see it. All I see are faces with character made grotesque by a caricaturist with a wonderfully perverted sense of humour. After all, a face must, at very least, be INTERESTING to earn a caricature like one of these.

"(can't believe i hadn't seen it before now - it should be compulsory viewing at art school)"

Most art and animation schools don't cover any of the classic cartoons or the history of animation. This may explain why many people entering the industry these days don't understand the principles of the forties they never viewed those cartoons from that period.

I have heard rumors that the only Golden Age material that Cal Arts discusses is Disney leaving out Warner Bros., MGM, and Fleischer and many other art styles. They don't mention them once during the four year enrollment there.